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EPISODE 27 Stilling Your Soul: A Breath Prayer to Help You Hear God
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I just got back from a camping weekend with zero cell service, and it reminded me just how much I need to still my soul and actually listen when I pray, not just talk. In this episode, I'm sharing...
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EPISODE 26 Love Your Neighbor in India: How One Woman Trained 33 Believers to Reach Muslims
Today I'm sharing something a little different — a real conversation I had with my colleague in India. I'm calling her Suwahati (not her real name) to protect her identity, but I wanted you to hear directly from her...
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EPISODE 25 When Muslims say "Jesus is not the Son of God!"
If you have Muslim friends, you already know this conversation. You turn things spiritual, and it goes the same way almost every time — the same objections, rapid fire, with total conviction. And usually, it ends in...
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EPISODE 24 Easy Ways to Meet and Greet Internationals in Your Country
In this episode, I'm answering a question from Ashley, one of my Neighbors & Nations Course students, who kept noticing Muslim and Hindu women at the grocery store and wanted to talk to them but didn't know what...
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EPISODE 23: How I Published My Book (And 3 Ways You Can Too)
Dozens of you have written in since my book came out asking the same question: how did you publish your book? Today I'm answering it — and giving you three different paths depending on why you're writing and what kind...
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EPISODE 22: We Just Started Driving South: A Survey Trip to Bangladesh
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS (BANGLADESH)
This is the finale of the Short-Term Trip Summer Series — and we're going to Bangladesh.
Two twenty-five-year-old millennial vloggers named Luke and Paul. A...
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EPISODE 21: Someone Has to Go First: What a Survey Trip Actually Is
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: SURVEY TRIPS
My favorite kind of short-term trip is the one hardly anyone is planning.
The Short-Term Trip called a Survey Trip goes where no long-term workers live. Where if you look up...
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EPISODE 20: Be Useful - What a Professional Short Term Trip Actually Looks Like
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: PROFESSIONAL TRIPS
Last week I took you to Mumbai to show you what a Vision Trip looks like — the Red Light district, the Dharavi slum, Titus and his chai, the maps-on-the ground prayer...
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EPISODE 19: Let Me Take You to Mumbai: What a Vision Trip Actually Looks Like
SUMMER SHORT-TERM TRIP SERIES: VISION TRIPS
Rather than tell you the difference between a Vision Trip and a Professional Trip and a Survey Trip (the three trip types), I want to show you what a Short-Term Vision Trip...
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EPISODE 18: Why Most Short-Term Mission Trips Miss the Mark (And How to Fix It)
I have a confession to make.
Years ago, I led a short-term trip to India with twenty-two people and the best intentions in the world. We stuffed twenty-two of our forty-four duffel bags with Beanie Babies for orphan...
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EPISODE 17: Why Headship Theology Is Dangerous for the Nations (And for Women)
Why is it that women are often more unleashed in overseas movement contexts than in Western churches? And what does that tell us about the theology we've accepted without examining?
In this episode, I'm wading into...
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EPISODE 16: You Don’t Have to Be Mother Teresa: The Five Global Goer Types
I just got off a call with a former Anderson Consulting executive who coaches aspiring cross-cultural workers how to start legitimate businesses in countries where religious visas don’t exist. And I thought — he is...
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